I don't care
much for the _Long Goodbye_ flick, plus which any detective
story with a cat loses 10 points on the hard-boiled scale.
One possible reason for including the little critter might be
that it is the quintessential lonely, J. Alfred Prufrock,
apartment dweller pet. But I still don't buy it. Chandler may
have been a cat freak, but Marlowe wouldn't have kept a pet
at all. Though he would have tolerated a dog better. Anyway,
there ain't no cat in the book.
James
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